A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.
She told how the fear had slipped away through the year, 'slipped away silently and secretly', and how we mustn't be afraid to try new things.
I don't want tobecause boysdon't write poetry.Girls do.
Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears, Gram said. If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think abou...
But it doesn't feel crazy to us.It feels like what we do.
When i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, LIBERO! It was a celebration of being alive
Your name makes a statement about you. It describes not only who you are but who you might be.
Sometimeswhen you are trying not to think about somethingit keeps popping back in your headyou can't help ityou think about itand think about itand think about ituntil your brainfeels likea squashed p...
It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer t...
I pretended he was my brother, only he was better than a brother because I chose him and he chose me. —Rosie
Lizzie said that if you imagined you were standing on the moon, looking down on the earth, you wouldn't be able to see the itty-bitty people racing around worrying you wouldn't see the barn falling in...
In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?
It was as if I were carrying around all the places I'd ever lived, and nothing I was seeing was just what it was - it was all of the places, all smooshed together. My bubble was fairly bursting by the...
I'm New-New? How blessed, he said. There's nothing in this whole wide world that is better than a new person!
I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, wh...
I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the l...
My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the n...
My father once said I was as gullible as a fish. I thought he said edible. I thought he meant I was tasty. The
By the time I got to the bottom, I understood what Guthrie ment when he shouted LIBERO! It was a celebration of being alive.
Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say...